Wednesday, October 30, Williamsburg - Colonial Road Runners weekly interval workout, 5:30 p.m., Walsingham Academy track. Speed workout of up to 4 miles worth of repeats, each repeat starting and finishing on the Walsingham track. Surface is mostly grass athletic fields, or crushed gravel running path, before finishing on track. Post-workout cool-down run of up to 2 miles. Rick Platt (757-229-7375, 757-345-1431, rickplatt1@juno.com). Note that in two weeks, starting on Wednesday, November 6th, the fall/winter starting time of 4:30 p.m. will begin, due to the end of Daylight Savings Time.

Thursday, October 31 – Happy Halloween!

Saturday, November 2, Williamsburg – “Enterprisers” distance run, 6:00 a.m., Merchants Square of Colonial Williamsburg. Meet in parking lot between the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop and the Trellis Restaurant. Distance runs of as much as 16 miles, including optional 3 mile add-on, starting at 5:30 a.m. Workouts are announced each week on Thursday or Friday. Lisa Osterhoudt email: lisaann0714@yahoo.com or Bob Fairbairn email: refairbairn@gmail.com.
See more about courses and workouts at http://www.facebook.com/groups/enterprisers/

There are also smaller “Enterprisers” group runs Mondays through Fridays, and Sundays at 6:00 a.m. in Williamsburg , with further details on the Enterprisers “about” page. To be added to the “Enterprisers” email list for the specific weekly Saturday workouts, email Lisa Osterhoudt at lisaann0714@yahoo.com

Race day registration from 7:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. in the school cafeteria at York High School , approximately ¼ mile from the race start and finish line (start at Surrender Field, finish underneath the Route 17 overpass). Entire course is on the beautiful, traffic-free Yorktown Battlefield tour roads. Race day fee $25. USATF-certified course (VA-16039-RT). A Peninsula Track Club Grand Prix event. Contact Brock Robertson: email: brobert164@aol.com. Website: www.yorkcountylionsclub.org. Enter online at www.active.com

*** This is the fall event for the ongoing age-graded competition between the combined Peninsula Track Club-Colonial Road Runners team vs. the Tidewater Striders team. To be included on the CRR-PTC team, email Rick Platt at rickplatt1@juno.com. The scoring is by the top 10 runners age-graded, male and female combined, with as many as 25 allowed on each team***

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Men's winner Cabell Rosanelli, 26, of Washington, DC, a former William and Mary track and cross country runner, in town for his 5th W&M reunion, set a new course record in winning the William and Mary Homecoming Run 5K Cross Country, held on the same Eastern State Hospital cross country course as used by local high schools.

Rosanelli was timed in 16:30 to better by eight seconds the previous mark of 16:38 by Blaine O'Reilly, set in 2011.

Lafayette High School was the organizer and beneficiary of the Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix event, the 17th in a 20-race series.

Wednesday, October 23, Williamsburg - Colonial Road Runners weekly interval workout, 5:30 p.m., Walsingham Academy track. Speed workout of up to 4 miles worth of repeats, each repeat starting and finishing on the Walsingham track. Surface is mostly grass athletic fields, or crushed gravel running path, before finishing on track. Post-workout cool-down run of up to 2 miles. Rick Platt (757-229-7375, 757-345-1431, rickplatt1@juno.com). Note that in two weeks, starting on Wednesday, November 6th, the fall/winter starting time of 4:30 p.m. will begin, due to the end of Daylight Savings Time.

Saturday, October 26, Williamsburg – “Enterprisers” distance run, 6:00 a.m., Merchants Square of Colonial Williamsburg. Meet in parking lot between the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop and the Trellis Restaurant. Distance runs of as much as 16 miles, including optional 3 mile add-on, starting at 5:30 a.m. Workouts are announced each week on Thursday or Friday. Lisa Osterhoudt email: lisaann0714@yahoo.com or Bob Fairbairn email: refairbairn@gmail.com.See more about courses and workouts at http://www.facebook.com/groups/enterprisers/

There are also smaller “Enterprisers” group runs Mondays through Fridays, and Sundays at 6:00 a.m. in Williamsburg , with further details on the Enterprisers “about” page. To be added to the “Enterprisers” email list for the specific weekly Saturday workouts, email Lisa Osterhoudt at lisaann0714@yahoo.com

Saturday, October 26 – CRR – William and Mary Homecoming 5K Run (cross country), 9 a.m., Eastern State Hospital . Open to all runners, W&M alumni and non-alumni. Organized by and benefiting the Lafayette High School cross country team. Race director Craig Wortman (757-871-3846). Email: xccoach@hotmail.com or Rick Platt, CRR. A Colonial Road Runners Grand Prix event (17th of 20 in the 2013 series). Same cross country course as used for high school and collegiate competition. All grass with multiple loops and hilly, rolling terrain. Enter at www.active.com. The early registration fee of $25 is good until 11:59 p.m. Thursday evening. That $25 early fee deadline extension is also good on mailed or hand-delivered entries to Craig Wortman, Lafayette High School , 4460 Longhill Road , Williamsburg , VA 23188 . Make checks payable to LABC (Lafayette Athletic Boosters Club). The race day fee will be $30.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Results from the 5th annual Crapolfest 5K Run, held Saturday morning
from the Albert-Daly Field, Martin Family Stadium of the College of
William and Mary. The race was the 16th in the 20-race Colonial Road
Runners Grand Prix series for 2013.

Men's winner Todd Kessler set a new course record (16:57), breaking his own mark from 2010.

Women's winner Kathleen Lautzenheiser, a William and Mary senior, was a
remarkable second overall in the race (17:59), men and women combined,
of a field of 147 finishers.

Women's runner-up Mercedes Castillo-D'Amico, came within five seconds of
her own Virginia State Record for women 55-59 with her time of 20:06,
compared to the state record time of 20:01 she ran at May's Walsingham
Academy 5K Run. Still it was the second fastest time ever run by a women
55-59 in the state of Virginia.

Age group records were broken by Kessler, Ken Alberg (men 50-54, 19:17) and by George Carrigan (men 65-69, 21:27).

7:30 a.m.
to 8:45 a.m. – registration at Martin Family Stadium at Albert-Daly Field,
adjacent to Plumeri Park , which is at the corner of Ironbound Road and the
Longhill Connector Road (the main entrance to Eastern State Hospital
)

The
Crapolfest will conclude Saturday evening at 7 p.m. with the William and Mary
men’s soccer team competing against Colonial Athletic Association rival
Northeastern at the Martin Family Stadium. Everyone who participates in a
Crapolfest event and also attends the game will be invited to the
12th Man Club halftime reception and our pre-game
tailgate.

This event
is a primary fundraiser for the Andrew E. Crapol Soccer Scholarship, established
in 2009 in memory of Andy Crapol, a local youth and high school soccer player
who played for W&M from 1996 to 2000.

Registrants for the race, the golf outing (October
19th, noon, Golden Horseshoe Golf Course) or the Crapolfest mini-golf
outing (October 19th, 2 p.m., at the Pirate’s Cove/Adventure Golf)
will include a Crapolfest T-shirt and refreshments. For details, visit www.andycrapol.com, or call Al Albert at 757-221-3438 or email afalbe@wm.edu.

Directions:

From the north/west: Take I-64 East to Lightfoot
Exit 234 (Route 199 East). At top of exit ramp, take a right onto Route 199
East. Stay on 199 East until the Longhill Road exit. Exit at Longhill Road . At
the top of the exit ramp, take a left at the light onto Longhill Road . Continue
straight through another stoplight, then bear to the right as Longhill Road
becomes Longhill Connector Road . At the next stoplight (in front of Eastern
State Hospital ), take a left onto Ironbound Road . Plumeri Park is on the left;
the entrance will be the second driveway on the left.

Front the south/east: Take I-64 West to Exit 242A
(Route 199 West). Follow 199 through five stoplights. After the fifth light,
take the next exit, Monticello Avenue . Bear right on the exit ramp and merge
onto Monticello Avenue . After various stoplights into “New Town”, take a left
onto Ironbound Road . After about a half mile, at the stoplight in front of
Eastern State Hospital , take a right, staying on Ironbound. Plumeri Park will
be on your left; the entrance is the second driveway on the
left.

From Richmond Road : From the east, take a left
onto Ironbound Road at the traffic light. From the west, take a right onto
Ironbound Road at the traffic light. Go past the new traffic light (into the
“High Street” development) and take a right onto “ Tennis Court ” for parking
behind the Dillard Complex.

Saturday, October 19, Williamsburg – “Enterprisers” distance run, 6:00 a.m., Merchants Square of Colonial Williamsburg. Meet in parking lot between the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop and the Trellis Restaurant. Distance runs of as much as 16 miles, including optional 3 mile add-on, starting at 5:30 a.m. Workouts are announced each week on Thursday or Friday. Lisa Osterhoudt email: lisaann0714@yahoo.com or Bob Fairbairn email: refairbairn@gmail.com.
See more about courses and workouts at http://www.facebook.com/groups/enterprisers/

There are also smaller “Enterprisers” group runs Mondays through Fridays, and Sundays at 6:00 a.m. in Williamsburg , with further details on the Enterprisers “about” page. To be added to the “Enterprisers” email list for the specific weekly Saturday workouts, email Lisa Osterhoudt at lisaann0714@yahoo.com

Saturday, October 12, Williamsburg – “Enterprisers” distance run, 6:00 a.m., Merchants Square of Colonial Williamsburg. Meet in parking lot between the Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop and the Trellis Restaurant. Distance runs of as much as 16 miles, including optional 3 mile add-on, starting at 5:30 a.m. Workouts are announced each week on Thursday or Friday. Lisa Osterhoudt email: lisaann0714@yahoo.com or Bob Fairbairn email: refairbairn@gmail.com.
See more about courses and workouts at http://www.facebook.com/groups/enterprisers/

There are also smaller “Enterprisers” group runs Mondays through Fridays, and Sundays at 6:00 a.m. in Williamsburg , with further details on the Enterprisers “about” page. To be added to the “Enterprisers” email list for the specific weekly Saturday workouts, email Lisa Osterhoudt at lisaann0714@yahoo.com